PARIS --The Airbus A320, the model of the EgyptAir plane that officials say crashed in the Mediterranean on Thursday, is one of the most common planes in service around the world today.

How few corners can a shape have and still tile the plane?” mathematician Gábor Domokos asked me over pizza. His deceptively simple question was about the geometry of tilings, also called ...

This is one simple example of a tiling of the line that has translational symmetry. In two dimensions, there are many familiar examples of tilings of the plane that have this property as well. In each ...

Metcalf and Jubran will investigate fractal tilings of the plane in their research this summer. A tiling of the plane is a countable family of tiles without gaps and without any overlapping of the ...